The party’s Senate leader said the GOP measure is better than enduring a shutdown, ahead of this weekend’s deadline.

The United States Senate is to vote Friday on the six-month government funding bill that was passed by Congress, and while it ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

Congress appears set to avoid a government shutdown, with the Senate preparing to pass legislation that would fund the ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he’s ready to ...

Schumer relented one day after he vowed Senate Democrats would thwart the "partisan" measure, saying the "chaos" of a ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, N.Y.) spoke from the Senate floor a day after he said Democrats were prepared to ...

"As bad as passing the CR is, allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse ...

The House’s passage of a Republican stopgap funding bill has put Senate Democrats in a bind: Either back a measure they ...

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The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to ...